Andrew Carnegie Mansion

Completed in 1902, for the great philanthropic industrialist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) and his wife Louise Whitfield (1857-1946). Carnegie quietly purchased the land in 1898 (the same year that he also acquired his beloved Skibo Castle in Scotland) with the intention that it would have enough room for a large garden (1.2 acres). It was designed by the architectural firm of Babb, Cook & Willard, to whom Carnegie instructed, "(build me the) most modest, plainest, and most roomy house in New York"....